TY - RPRT A1 - Schank, Thorsten A1 - Schnabel, Claus A1 - Wagner, Joachim T1 - Do exporters really pay higher wages? First evidence from German linked employer-employee data N2 - Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this exporter wage premium. We show that the wage differential becomes smaller but does not completely vanish when observable and unobservable characteristics of the employees and of the work place are controlled for. For example, blue-collar (white-collar) employees working in a plant with an export-sales ratio of 60 percent earn about 1.8 (0.9) percent more than similar employees in otherwise identical non-exporting plants. N2 - nicht verfügbar KW - Export KW - Lohn KW - Deutschland KW - Arbeitgeber KW - Arbeitnehmer KW - Exports KW - wages KW - exporter wage premium KW - linked employer-employee data KW - Germany Y1 - 2006 UR - http://pub-data.leuphana.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/426 ER -